Scottish Cup First Round | Scottish League Division Two 16th | |
Top goalscorer League: Johnny Haddow (21)All: Johnny Haddow (21) | ||
Season 1929–30 was the 53rd Scottish football season in which Dumbarton competed at national level, entering the Scottish Football League for the 31st time and the Scottish Cup for the 42nd time.
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Overview
With just 5 wins to show for their efforts in the league campaign up to the new year, it was to prove yet another fruitless season for Dumbarton, and in the end finished 16th, out of 20, in the Second Division with 30 points - 27 behind champions Leith Athletic.
In the Scottish Cup, Dumbarton were knocked out in the first round by Cowdenbeath.
Locally, for the first time since 1923, Dumbarton won the Dumbartonshire Cup, beating Clydebank in the final.
Elsewhere a challenge match was played against a Dumbartonshire Juvenile XI.
Results
All results are written with Dumbarton's score first.
Appearances
Dumbarton used 26 players for the 39 Scottish League and Scottish Cup matches, as detailed below. Kelso and Lennie topped the 'selection chart' by featuring in 38 of these matches. Note that in six matches, unnamed 'trialist(s)' played, and one goal was scored by a 'trialist'.